Potential new employer doesn't want to wait my notice period

bap98189

pinkshoes wrote: »

The urgency that the company have would set alarm bells ringing for me. Why is it so urgent? Why can they not wait? It can sometimes hint at an unorganised employer.

Lots of jobs have 3 month notice periods!!

I wouldn't wait 2 months to employ someone unless they were in a very senior position, or they were a very special individual.

Notice periods always used to be 1 month, but recently there does seem to be a shift towards people at low levels having 2 or 3 months written into their contracts. My OH works for the NHS and her trust recently changed everyone's contracts to 3 months across the board. We're not talking at exec level, I mean right down to people earning £20k doing admin - and for some unknown reason the union agreed to it :mad:

Candyapple

Would your employer be likely to let you work out a 1 month's notice instead of the 2?

Would your current employer be likely to offer you a pay rise if they knew you were about to leave?

Izzy8484

A lot of my friends have 3 months also. I thought having 2 was not so bad.

My notice period went up a month when I got promoted to a more senior positions.

Izzy8484

Candyapple wrote: »

Would your employer be likely to let you work out a 1 month's notice instead of the 2?

Would your current employer be likely to offer you a pay rise if they knew you were about to leave?

I tried leaving a year ago already. They promoted me and offered me more money. I think trying this again would look bad.

Candyapple

Izzy8484 wrote: »

I tried leaving a year ago already. They promoted me and offered me more money. I think trying this again would look bad.

Ah ok. However, you clearly think your employers are not paying you enough - hence you've been job hunting, so they must know they're not paying the market rate also, which leaves the choice down to them as to whether they will find someone of your level/language speaker in 1 month's time or go with the easier option of increasing your salary.

It's not unheard of for companies who are desperate for specialist staff to increase their salary if they can start sooner, the same thing happened to my partner, similar situation to yours - he wanted £5k more and they met in the middle at £2.5k to get him to leave sooner so he could start there.

Do you think the new employer would be able to find someone else if you decided against taking them up on their offer? Or would they begrudgingly hold the position for you until your 2 months is up?

TELLIT01

HappyMJ wrote: »

Why 2 months notice? That's quite long notice. I would not have expected a potential employee to have such long notice either.

2 months isn't at all unusual in either a managerial role, or one where specific skills are required and therefore difficult to replace. When I worked in financial services it was 3 months notice both ways for my grade.

kaflinkle

I do not want to out myself but a language that is not too outrageous in terms of available people that speak it in the UK...

Sorry, I didn't mean to pry, I just surmised from your post that it was a rare language like Chamicuro, Biblical Hebrew or Latin (admittedly these are a bit extreme).

Leo2020

My husband has a 3 month notice period because he has worked for his employer for 18 years. It is nothing specialised, in fact if he was still in his old role within the company which was Customer Service Advisor in a call centre then it would still be 3 months notice. He is looking for a job at the minute and the long notice period has been mentioned as a problem. They have however since agreed to let him only work one months notice.

getmore4less

If your skills are in demand then what about contracting

If you have a specialist skill your current employer needs then 2 months may not even be enough for them and is perfectly reasonable.

unless you can help with the recruitment to speed things up I think you would be mad to burn bridges and walk out.

The new job sounds like they could be trouble down the line.

They are desperate and need you in a month and are arguing over what you want them to pay you.

How have they got themselves into this situation?
perhaps there notice periods are too short.

I think I would just go back to them with top money and 2 months notice tell them to go away and think about it.

Once they agree if you have not found anything better or got your current employer to improve their package you may let them start the 2month clock.

I think I would add in a termination payment if they terminate for any reason you are giving up your cuurent security.

sangie595

You have a specialist skill. So two months notice is actually quite short. And a breach of contract claim against you is quite possible if you don't serve your notice. And the potential new employer must know this. So I agree that you should pay attention to your gut. Any employer who is willing to encourage you to breach your contact with the current employer is just as likely to have similar ethics in other matters. And you have two years to wait before you have employment protection.